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"This is very restful," he remarked. "We have certainly had a very busy day. The inside of electioneering may be disenchanting, but it's jolly hard work." Mr. Bullsom sat with clasped hands in front of him resting upon that slight protuberance which denoted the advent of a stomach. He had thrown away the cigar which he had lit in the committee-room. Mrs.
You did a bit of conveyancing for us. "Of course I did," Brooks answered, "and I told you from the first that you were going to make a lot of money by it." Mr. Bullsom glanced around the room. The two maid-servants were at the sideboard. "Guess how much." Brooks shook his head. "I never knew your exact share," he said. "It's half a million," Mr.
"Makes a good speech, some one was saying." "Gives free lectures at the Secular Hall." "Rather a smart young solicitor, they say!" Mr. Bullsom looked around him. "He is all these things, and he does all these things. He is one of these youngsters who has the knack of doing everything well. Mark my words, all of you.
"Well, it is most gratifying to think that I gave that young man his first start," he remarked. "I believe, too, that he is not likely to forget it." "The bell!" Mrs. Bullsom exclaimed, with a little gasp. "Some one has come." "Well, if they have, there's nothing to be frightened about," Mr. Bullsom retorted. "Ain't we expecting them to come? Don't look so scared, Sarah!
Suppeton, Captain Meyton!" The two young men were good enough to acknowledge the introduction, and Brooks shook hands with Louise. Selina was surveying her father with uplifted eyebrows. "Why, father, where on earth have you been?" she exclaimed. "I never saw anybody such a sight. Your shirt is like a rag, and your collar too." "Never you mind me, Selina," Mr. Bullsom answered, firmly.
"No one." You have a guardian or friends? "I have been living with my uncle, Mr. Bullsom. He has been very kind to me, and I have " "Mary!" They both turned round. Selina and Mr. Bullsom had issued from the shop before which they stood, Both were looking at Lord Arranmore with curiosity, in Selina's case mixed with suspicion. "Is this your uncle?" he asked. "Will you introduce me?"
"I tell you what it is, Brooks," he said, more cheerfully. "We mustn't be too previous in judging the fellow. Let's write him civilly, and if nothing comes of it in a week or two, we will run up to London, you and me, eh? and just haul him over the coals." "You are right, Mr. Bullsom," Brooks said. "There is nothing we can do for the present."
"A peer of England with a seat in the House of Lords must always be a public man to some extent," Mr. Huntingdon remarked. "I am not sure," Brooks remarked, "that the lives of all our hereditary legislators would bear the most searching inquiry." "That's right, Brooks," Mr. Bullsom declared. "Stick up for your pals." Brooks looked a little annoyed.
Bullsom declared heartily. "Can't expect these young ladies to see through a business matter, eh? I will come to your lordship's house whenever you like." "It would be quite useless, uncle," Mary interposed, firmly. "Lord Arranmore has already my final answer." Mr. Bullsom was a little excited. "Tut, tut, child!" he exclaimed. "Don't talk nonsense.
"I should like a country house quite ten on fifteen miles away from here, lots of horses and carriages, and a house in town for the season," Selina declared, boldly. "And you, Louise?" "I should like what Selina has said." Mr. Bullsom looked a little grave. "The house in London," he said, "you shall have, whether I buy it or only hire it for a few months at a time.
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